Laptop Keyboard Doesn't Work During BIOS. Can't Install Trisquel.
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Hey guys.
I'm trying to put Trisquel on an 5-year-old Alienware Area51 M9750.
I have two problems:
#1) It will not boot from a CD or USB stick without manually selecting it using F11 during the BIOS. It will only boot from a hard drive.
#2) I cannot manually select to boot from CD/USB because the keyboard is not working during the BIOS. The laptop keyboard works after an OS has been loaded from the HDD, but not during the startup. A USB keyboard also doesn't work during the BIOS process. No surprise there. I also cannot use a PS/2 keyboard because there is no connection for such.
Is this a dead CMOS battery? I used to have this set to boot from CD first before the HDD. If this is a dead CMOS battery, then booting from the HDD might just be the fallback default CMOS options set at the factory.
At any rate, I still don't understand why the keyboard doesn't work during the BIOS until the OS is loaded.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you.
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Le 12-11-10 03:45 PM, name at domain a écrit :
> Hey guys.
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> I'm trying to put Trisquel on an 5-year-old Alienware Area51 M9750.
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> At any rate, I still don't understand why the keyboard doesn't work
during the BIOS until the OS is loaded.
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Sounds like a hardware problem.
Get the hard disk out, install Trisquel on it using another system.
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Do you have a USB keyboard laying around that you could plug in? That might work.
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1. You can try booting the image right from your hard disk, I didn't play with this, so I can't be of help but you can check duckduckgo or google.
2. I agree with MagicFab, even thou is more complicated, your best bet would be to remove the hard drive and install on another system.